A/N: I promised I'd do this much earlier, didn't I? Anyways enjoy the new chapter.

Chapter 144: Mock Town

The small pirate ship slowly sailed on, Nami on the other hand wasn't happy. Sure Sasuke's condition was pretty grating on everyone, first off, there wasn't any treasure, also while the books were interesting none of them contained the information she needed.

"We're back to square one." Said Nami.

"That's too bad." Said Isaribi.

"You're right." Said Nami, she walked over the "treasure" and stomped on it, "It would have been better if all you brought wasn't junk. You guys didn't listen to what I wanted… Isaribi and Sakura knew… all you did was bring rusty junk."

Nami sighed, "Where is Sakura?" she asked.

"She's with Sasuke." Said Ino, "She hasn't left his side since the fight with Orochimaru."

"And you haven't joined her?" asked Sanji.

"She's a doctor in training. She has a right to be there. I don't." sighed Ino.

"Wait,…" said Luffy, "Where are we going again?"

"To Jaya." Said Nami, "We need to get to an island."

Luffy pouted, "I really wanted to go sky island… but Sasuke's more important right now."

"Maybe we can do both." Said Naruto, "Maybe he'll get better before the log pose resets."

"I don't know." Said Ino, "He's in really bad shape."

"That bastard won't back down. There's no way that Emo asshole will let himself die because some hickey." Said Naruto.

Everyone hearing this was confused, was Naruto praising him or insulting him.

"Were you insulting him or were you praising him?" asked Kyubi.

"I don't know…" thought Naruto with a sweat drop, "I lost track."

"The point is he'll be fine." Said Kiba.

As they approached the island, they got into the climate zone, which was a nice warm spring time.

"It's so nice." Said Hinata.

"I know." Said Naruto.

That was when seagulls fell to the deck.

"What just happened?" asked Luffy.

Chopper ran over to them and began to examine them.

"They were shot." Said Chopper, "And from the look of the bullet it was straight ahead."

"That's impossible who could shoot like that." Said Kiba.

"A sniper shooting all the way here?" asked Usopp, "Maybe they were shot somewhere else and landed here."

As they approached the island. They noticed something about the ships docked there. They were all pirate ships.

"What kind of place is this!" yelled Nami, Usopp and Chopper.

It was a pirate's paradise, one where pirates could do anything.

Below deck, Sakura watched over Sasuke.

"There hasn't been any changes." She thought.

That was when Ino came down.

"Hey! We reached an island." Said Ino.

"Okay…" said Sakura.

"No change?" asked Ino.

Sakura shook his head.

Ino didn't say anything as she went back up. Sakura just sat there.

Ino got up to the deck.

"So how is he?" asked Isaribi.

"Say Isaribi… now do you want to go shopping." Said Ino, "We can do this the easy way or the hard way."

Isaribi just had to say something to her after that…

Luffy, Naruto, Zoro, Hinata and Gaara decided to explore.

"I can't believe that they're just going to explore like this." Said Nami.

"Knowing them, Naruto, Luffy, Zoro would fight, Hinata wouldn't do a thing and Gaara… I don't want to know what Gaara would do." Said Usopp.

That was when Nami jumped on the docks and ran after them.

"Great… now Nami's leaving." Thought Usopp.

"Hey!" said Isaribi holding onto an unconscious Ino, "I'm taking Isaribi shopping."

Sanji knew it was Ino possessing Isaribi.

"I'll give you the money and the food shopping list." Said Sanji.

"Okay, we'll do that afterwards." Said the Ino possessed Isaribi.

The Ino possessed Isaribi left with her body. While Usopp and Chopper looked at Sanji.

"Don't worry. I'm here." Said Sanji.

"Me and Akamaru are here too." Said Kiba.

Chopper and Usopp sighed… at least they weren't alone on this.

Not too far away three figures watched the ship.

"So that's the Straw Hat Pirates." Said the first, who was a male.

"So when are we going to go?" asked the second who was female.

"Let's wait a bit. After all we haven't seen Sasuke yet." Said the third who was also male.

With the exploring group…

"I promise not to fight in this town." Said Luffy.

"You better." Said Nami, "Because if you don't we'll leave and we'll never find a way to sky island."

"What about Sasuke?" asked Naruto.

"We'll go to another part of the island then." Said Nami.

That was when they came across a sickly man who fell of his horse.

"Can you help me get back on?" asked the man.

They helped him get back on.

"Thank you so much, I was born sickly." Said the man.

That was when the horse began to cough up blood as well.

"That's not right." Said Kyubi, if he had a physical form, there would be a sweat drop.

"Here take one of these." He said holding of a basket of apples.

"Kit! Don't take one of those apples." Said Kyubi.

However Luffy didn't have a pervert demon inside of him so he took one.

That was when they heard an explosion.

"He just took a bite out of that apple and it exploded!" yelled guy, "Some weird guy was just handing them out."

"Spit that apple right now!" yelled Nami.

"Please tell me you didn't eat one." Said Zoro turning to Naruto.

"No, I didn't." said Naruto.

"Don't worry." Said the strange man, "If it was a bad one he would be dead right now. You are a lucky boy."

"What kind of place is this!" yelled Nami.

"Hey calm down." Said Luffy.

"Calm down! You could have died!" yelled Nami.

"But he didn't so don't worry about it." Said Naruto.

"Relax Nami. Everything will be just fine." Said Hinata.

"Says the girl who grew up with those two idiots." Muttered Nami.

"She right though." Said Gaara.

Nami grumbled.

"Great… that guy is causing trouble again." Said a different random bystander.

They looked up and saw what happened to be a wrestler on the roof.

"Who is face the me! The grappling champion!" yelled the wrestler.

"Grappling champion?" asked Luffy, Zoro and Naruto.

"Don't even think about it!" yelled Nami, while Hinata just giggled.

After some more wandering they ended up at beautiful resort area.

"Oh wow." Said Luffy.

"This looks nice." Said Naruto.

"Stupid thing that will prevent us from exploring in 3,2…" said Kyubi.

That was a very skinny jittery man showed up.

"Hey!" he yelled, "This hotel is currently being rented out by the Bellamy party. If he finds out, there's going to be big trouble."

"Who's Bellamy?" asked Luffy.

"I think I've heard of him." Said Hinata, "He used to be a member of the 7 Warlords of the Seas Crew until he gave up on his crew…"

That was when a member of Bellamy's crew showed up, (with a girl).

"What's with these bilge rats?" he asked.

"Sorry Mr. Sarquiss." Said the man.

The pirate crewmember Sarquiss glared at the crew, "No excuses, you better get them out of here."

"Can I beat him up?" asked Luffy.

"No!" yelled Nami.

Gaara stepped up, "We just docked here. We don't know the ways of this town." He said, "If you're a member of the ruling crew that's fine. We'll leave."

Sarquiss looked at Gaara, he looked in his eyes, the eyes said "I killed before and if you cross me I'll kill again.

"Whatever." Muttered Sarquiss, "Let's go."

The other 5 sweat dropped.

"Did you just threaten to kill him?" asked Naruto.

"Yes and no…" said Gaara, "I had no plans to kill him, but he didn't know that."

"That's what you get when a former psychotic killer joins." Said Kyubi, "The feeling of impending death even if he doesn't mean it."

They left the hotel, unaware the Sarquiss was learning about Luffy and Naruto at that very moment.

The crew wound up in a tavern. It was of course filled with pirates. Nami got information about the town (Mock Town) and that it was a pirate town. They sat down next to a big man at the bar. A man that made both Naruto and Gaara feel uneasy.

"Hey…" said Naruto, "Me and Gaara will be right back."

Gaara nodded and the two left to talk.

"You can sense it too?" asked Gaara.

"There's something about that." Said Naruto.

"I feel it too kit, and if I were to guess, Chibi does too. That man is beyond anything I have ever felt." Said Kyubi.

"Kyubi says he's beyond anything Kyubi has ever felt." Said Naruto.

"I hope we stay on this man's good side." Said Gaara, "We do not want him as an enemy."

They got back to see… Luffy in an extremely petty fight with the man.

"Dear god! Why him!" yelled Kyubi.

"What are they fighting about?" asked Gaara.

"It started with the pie, then the drinks…" said Nami holding her head like she had a headache.

After getting into argument with Luffy about his bounty, the bartender gave him 50 pies and he left.

As he left he passed by the pirate named Bellamy, who was headed into the bar himself. When he came in he yelled out.

"Has anyone seen a guy in a straw hat and some brat with a clone user head band?"

And so… an event that would set quite a few things off would begin.

Next Time: With Bellamy's appearance, trouble comes. With the promise to Nami not to fight, what will happen? Especially since someone comes out to play... well not so play as use loop hole abuse to tell a little something to Bellamy. What will happen? Find out next time!